Notable Changes:
* build: Support for building io.js as a static
library (Marat Abdullin) #1341
* deps: upgrade openssl to 1.0.2a (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1389
* npm: Upgrade npm to 2.8.3. (Forrest L Norvell) #1448
* src: allow multiple arguments to be passed to
process.nextTick (Trevor Norris) #1077
* module: the interaction of require('.') with NODE_PATH has been
restored and deprecated. This functionality will be removed at
a later point. (Roman Reiss) #1363
* **build**: Support for building io.js as a static library (Marat Abdullin) [#1341](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1341)
* **deps**: Upgrade openssl to 1.0.2a (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1389](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1389)
* **npm**: Upgrade npm to 2.8.3. See the [release notes](https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v2.8.3) for details. Includes improved git support. Summary:
* **src**: Allow multiple arguments to be passed to process.nextTick (Trevor Norris) [#1077](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1077)
* **module**: The interaction of `require('.')` with `NODE_PATH` has been restored and deprecated. This functionality
will be removed at a later point. (Roman Reiss) [#1363](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1363)
### Known issues
* Some problems with unreferenced timers running during `beforeExit` are still to be resolved. See [#1264](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/1264).
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal [#690](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/690)
* `process.send()` is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see [#760](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/760) and fix in [#774](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/774)
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion [#894](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/894)
* `url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/1435).
* readline: split escapes are processed incorrectly, see [#1403](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/1403)
### Commits
* [[`431673ebd1`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/431673ebd1)] - **buffer**: fast-case for empty string in byteLength (Jackson Tian) [#1441](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1441)
* [[`92dfb794f9`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/92dfb794f9)] - **build**: enable ssl support on arm64 (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1389](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1389)
* [[`7de0dcde83`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/7de0dcde83)] - **deps**: make node-gyp work with io.js (cjihrig) [#990](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/990)
* [[`4870213f9e`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/4870213f9e)] - **deps**: upgrade npm to 2.8.3 (Forrest L Norvell)
* [[`49bb7ded2c`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/49bb7ded2c)] - **deps**: fix git case sensitivity issue in npm (Chris Dickinson) [#1456](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1456)
* [[`eb7a23595f`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/eb7a23595f)] - **deps**: add x32 and arm64 support for opensslconf.h (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1389](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1389)
* [[`033a663127`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/033a663127)] - **deps**: replace all headers in openssl (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1389](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1389)
* [[`ae8831f240`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/ae8831f240)] - **deps**: backport openssl patch of alt cert chains 1 (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1389](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1389)
* [[`71316c46d9`](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/commit/71316c46d9)] - **deps**: fix asm build error of openssl in x86_win32 (Shigeki Ohtsu) [#1389](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1389)